St. Louis, MO band The Bottle Rockets will release their latest album South Broadway Athletic Club on October 2nd via Bloodshot Records. This is the band’s first studio album since 2009’s Lean Forward and the first recorded entirely in their hometown. The album will be released on CD and as a Limited Edition vinyl LP with digital download included.

Since the mid-1990s, Bottle Rockets bard Brian Henneman and his shifting ensemble of compadres (drummer Mark Ortmann is a constant) have been crafting heartland epics within a rock ‘n’ roll framework, that spill beer and stir the heart on impact

— NPR Music

The Bottle Rockets 2015 photo by Otis Gibbs.

The first thing I learned about The Bottle Rockets was that they had songs. Real songs with a beginning and a middle and an end